From CNET: Google is entering its AI agents era with the introduction of Gemini 2.0 -- the company's next generation AI chatbot -- and a limited release of Project Astra, a computer vision-assisted AI agent that can see and analyze the world around you, the company said in a press release on Wednesday.
Project Astra, which was shown off at Google I/O earlier this year, is a major leap in Google's AI research from its DeepMind team in London. Like the video from earlier this year demonstrated, Project Astra, which can work through your phone's camera or through camera-equipped glasses, can see and analyze the world around you and give answers to anything it recognizes. This includes being able to ask your glasses where a bus is headed, what the code is to your apartment complex is or where you left your book.
Google says its latest advancements with Astra include better dialogue and conversibility in multiple languages, deeper integration with Google Lens and Maps, up to 10 minutes of memory, and better latency for faster responses.
Project Astra will first land with people in its trusted tester program. A time frame for when it might go public wasn't given.
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